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The militant group Al Shabaab Somalia has joined ranks with Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced via a video message released on Thursday.

"I am announcing a major good news for the creation of our country, which would ... disrupt the crusaders, and it is the incorporation of Al Shabaab movement in Somalia with the Al Qaeda," Zawahiri said.

The first part of the video footage that showed Al Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, told Zawahiri, "We will be with you as a loyal troops.""On behalf of my mujahideen brothers, leaders and soldiers ... I promise to obey," said Zubair."Lead us to the path of jihad and martyrdom in the steps outlined our martyr Osama bin Laden to us," said Zubair, referring to the former leader of Al Qaeda who died last year in a secret U.S. raid on his hideout in Pakistan.

Al Shabaab group claimed allegiance to bin Laden in a videotape distributed in 2009.Al Shabab waging this war for several years in an attempt to topple Somalia's transitional government and UN support for African Union troops to combat. The group's name came to light after the deadly attacks in Kampala in July 2010.


U.S. officials said the Al Shabaab group could lead to a wider global threat.Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for attacks in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, on July 11 that killed 79 people. The bombing was the worst attack in eastern Africa since the attacks on U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which is claimed by Al Qaeda in 1979.

Washington called Al Shabaab as a terrorist organization with close ties to Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden.

Al Shabaab's hardline militia and its allies tried to overthrow the government of President Sharif Ahmed as they launched a deadly attack in May two years ago. They face fierce opposition from pro-government militia groups that oppose the imposition of strict Islamic law in the areas of central and southern Somalia under their control.

Al Shabaab and other militant guerrilla groups want to impose strict Islamic law in Somalia and has also conducted the executions, stonings, and amputations in southern and central regions.Somalia hit by power struggle and anarchy since warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. In addition to piracy, kidnapping and deadly violence also hit the country.